Strange how The Root isn’t covering this story anymore.

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Are you going to offer any kind of apology for implying that all the people who called this a hoax racist and/or sexist?

Another sad addition to an increasingly sad and confusing story.

Jez + this story = popcorn.gif

I’m still expecting a follow-up by Kalyn about how this whole incident wasn’t even Carlee’s fault, it was the fault of White America and the White Police Chief was in the wrong to dismiss this as a hoax so quickly even before her attorney admitted it was.

That ‘small town’ idiot is from Macon, GA, population 154,000. At least John Mellencamp was from Spencer, IN, population 2400.

Isn’t this the guy who’s Trump’s cuckold?

OK, so now you’re acting all outraged over hving been hoaxed.

So what's the status on her hefty defamation suit you said she was gonna have against everyone calling her a liar from the start?

This needle generated one of the biggest laughs in the entire film from my audience, along with the Midge gag, the Justice League bit and the final line. 

I read a rumor somewhere that the boyfriend was cheating on her and this was some misguided attempt at winning back his affections? No idea if it’s true but it might explain why he’s still sticking up for her?

I mean look, in all of this Jezebel had to try and find a different bad guy than Russells. Just like Santa just is ... white, Russells just ... checks too many boxes for them to point out that she’s the obvious bad guy here even after the truth comes out. Like unless she’s gone full MAGA-dumbass like Diamond and Foxx…

Congratulations on contributing literally nothing useful to this story. Zero. You did not ask any real questions, you did no analysis. You didn’t exhibit a single journalistic instinct. You literally just typed statements from her lawyers and PR people and chastised anybody who dared to question why her story made no…

And the “No Shit, Sherlock” Award for this week goes to...

I’m sure having to deal with the busiest day of the week at your job, while also having to deal with the fact that your coworker committed a disgusting and heinous crime, would be “really devastating” for all the employees. Not sure why you’re coming for the guy who owns a spa that formerly employed someone everyone…

This song has been out for months. If no one had noticed that the location of the video was a courthouse where a lynching occured then it would have continued on it’s low charting trajectory.

So cancel culture is bad, but vigilante fun violence is awesome?

At some point they’ll cancel themselves and we can finally have some goddamn peace and quiet around here.

Target, Budweiser, Disney, The Beatles, The Barbie Movie, Ford, Hershey...the list goes on and on, and now they are cancelling their own culture and whining like little bitches about it.